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This document outlines the syllabus for the subject of Philosophy for the CSS Competitive Examination in Pakistan. It is divided into two papers. Paper I covers Western Philosophy, including Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche, and contemporary movements such as existentialism and logical positivism. Paper II covers Muslim Philosophy, including early Islamic theology, Sufism, important Muslim philosophers from Ibn Sina to Ibn Khaldun, modern reconstructionists like Iqbal, and contemporary debates in Islam. Recommended books on both Western and Islamic philosophy are also provided.

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This document outlines the syllabus for the subject of Philosophy for the CSS Competitive Examination in Pakistan. It is divided into two papers. Paper I covers Western Philosophy, including Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche, and contemporary movements such as existentialism and logical positivism. Paper II covers Muslim Philosophy, including early Islamic theology, Sufism, important Muslim philosophers from Ibn Sina to Ibn Khaldun, modern reconstructionists like Iqbal, and contemporary debates in Islam. Recommended books on both Western and Islamic philosophy are also provided.

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Revised Scheme and Syllabus for CSS Competitive Examination-2016

PAPER: PHILOSOPHY (100 MARKS)


I. Introduction:
Definition, Nature and Scope of Philosophy

II. Philosophical Methods:


Socratic Method (Socrates); Inductive Method (Bacon, Mill); Deductive Method
(Aristotle, Descartes); Dialectical Method (Hegel); Fallibilistic Method (Popper)

III. Epistemology: Rationalism (Plato, Descartes, Spinoza); Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley,


Hume); Transcendentalism (Kant); Intuitionism (Bergsonl)
IV. Ontology: Idealism (Plato, Berkeley); Representative Realism (Locke); Materialism
(Marx)

V. Muslim Thinkers: Allama Iqbal., Imam Ghazali, Al-Farabi, Ibn-e- Sina, Ibn-e-
Khaldun, Ibn-e-Rushid, Shah Wali Ullah

VI. Ethics: What is morality? The challenge of cultural relativism: Does morality depend
on religion. Psychological and ethical egoism: Virtue Ethics (Aristotle), Moral
Absolutism (Kant), Utilitarianism (Mill), Social Contract Theory.

VII. Contemporary Philosophical Movements:

Existentialism (Heidegger, Sartre); Pragmatism (Peirce, James, Dewey); Neo-


pragmatism (Rorty); Postmodernism (Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida)

SUGGESTED READINGS

S.No. Title Author


1. History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell
2. Philosophy: The Power of Ideas Brooke Noel Moore &
Kenneth Bruder
3. Elements of Moral Philosophy James Rachels
4. Existentialism & Human Emotions. Philosophical Jean Paul Sartre
Library
5. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Jean-Francois Lyotard
6. Descartes to Derrida: An Introduction to European Peter Sedgwick
Philosophy
7. Continental Philosophy in the 20th Century Richard Kearney
8. A Short History of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton
9. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Internet Resources
(plato.stanford.edu). Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (www.iep.utm.edu).
SYLLABUS FOR THE SUBJECT OF PHILOSOPHY
Paper – I
Total Marks: 100

Western Philosophy

1. Introduction: Nature and Value of Philosophy

2. Greek Philosophers:

a) Plato: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of State


b) Aristotle: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge and Logic

3. Modern Philosophers:

a) Descartes: Doubt as a key to certainty, Dualism


b) Spinoza: Doctorine of substance, Ethics
c) Locke: Representative Realism
d) Berkeley: Subjective Idealism
e) Hume: Skepticism
f) Kant: Transcendental Idealism
g) Hegel: Dialectical Method, Absolute Idealism
h) Nietzsche: Superman, Will to Power

4. Contemporary Philosophical Movements:

a) Existentialism: Jean Paul Sartre


b) Logical Positivism: Criterion of Verifiability, Refutation of
Metaphysics
c) Neo-Pragmatism:
Richard Rorty: Objectivity, Relativism and Truth

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

1. Brooke Noel Moore & Kenneth Bruder [2002] Philosophy: The Power of
Ideas, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill, London.
2. Bertrand Russell [2003] History of Western Philosophy, Routledge,
London & New York.
3. Roger Scruton [2002] A Short History of Modern Philosophy, Routledge.
4. Frederick Copleston [1993] History of Philosophy, Reprint edition, Image.
5. Frank Thilly [1993] A History of Philosophy, Sabharwal Book Whole.
6. Jean-Paul Sartre [1977] Existentialism & Humanism, M.S.G. House
7. A.J. Ayer [1978] Logical Positivism, Greenwood Press
Paper – II
Total Marks: 100

Muslim Philosophy

1. Genesis and Development of Theological and Philosophical Thought in


Islam

2. Muslim Theology:

a) Mutazilites: Five Principles, Naturalistic Ethics


b) Asharites: Divine Attibutes, Createdness / Uncreatedness of the
Quran, Human Freedom

3. Sufisim:

a) Origin of Sufisim and its Characteristics


b) Metaphysics: Wahdat al Wajud and Wahdat al Shuhud

4. Muslim Philosophers:

a) Ibn Sina: Concept of Being, Doctrine of Emanation, Psychology


b) Al Ghazali: Method, Refutation of Philosophers
c) Ibn Rushd: Reconciliation between Philosophy and Religion,
Theory of Knowledge
d) Ibn Khaldun: Concept of History, Refutation of Metaphysics

5. Modern Reconstructionists of Islamic Thought:

a) Shah Waliullah: Metaphysics, Social Philosophy


b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: God, Man and Universe, Concept of
Religion and Ethics
c) Allama Muhammad Iqbal: Epistemology, Doctrine of Ego, Concept
of Ijtehad

6. Contemporary Debates:

a) Religious Modernism
b) Religious Fundamentalism
c) Islamization of Knowledge

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

1. Seyyed Hossein Nasr & Oliver Leaman [1996] History of Islamic


Philosophy, Vol. I & II, Routledge, London & New York.
2. Majid Fakhari [2004] A History of Islamic Philosophy, 3rd Edition, Columbia
University Press, New York.

3. M. M. Sharif [1996] A History of Muslim Philosophy Vol. I & II, Royal Book
Company, Karachi.

4. Abdul Khaliq [2000] Problems of Muslim Theology, Victory Book Bank,


Lahore.

5. Abdul Khaliq [1966] Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: On Nature, Man and God,
Bazm-e-Iqbal, Lahore.

6. J. M. S. Baldjon [1986] Religion and Thought of Shah Waliullah Dihlawi,


Leidan: E.J. Brill.

7. Mansoor Moaddel & Kamran Talattof [2002] Modernist and


Fundamentalistd Debates in Islam, Palgrave Macmillan.

8. Ismail Raji – al Faruqi [1988] Islamization of Knowledge: Problems,


Principles and Prospective, International Institute of Islamic Thought,
Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.

9. Mustansir Mir [2006] Iqbal, Iqbal Academy, Pakistan.

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